Looked Who Learned to....

.....SWIM all by himself!

We're thrilled.

He's thrilled.



How it happened:
1) On our first trip to the swimming pool I said to Lance that we should really try to teach Kai to swim this trip. Living it UT Kai's time in water has been limited some to summer swim lessons

2) On about Day 2 of the trip I remembered that we had brought some water wings with us. Kai had never used any before and once he figured out he could really get around with them by himself he was loving it. It was lovely for us as well since the Condo pool has no shallow end where he could touch.

3) On Day 3 the water wings had given him great courage in the pool.

4) On Day 4 a little girl named Angelina shows up at the pool. She is turning 4 this week and has no water wings and can jump off the side and swim about 5 feet to the stairs by herself. Kai sees this, talks to her, and quickly rips off the water wings and joins her in the jumping and swimming to the stairs.

5) By Day 5 he is swimming the width of the pool taking breaths with a parent near by just incase. And the water wings have now been permanetly left at the Condo.

6) The rest of the trip (including some evening swimming) we refer to him as our little fish. He can't get enough of the water and is having a blast being independent.

*We'd also like to remember: At the Hilton there is a dolphin interaction pool and we ate dinner by it one night and walked past it a few times. Thus, several hours of swimming time were filled with Kai being an imaginary dolphin trainer of 10 dolphins. He taught them several tricks and would help them jump from pool to hot tub and back.